How to Solve Climate Change

By: Brandon Stover | Plato University
  • Summary

  • Learn to solve one of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change. In this course you’ll use systems thinking to understand the causes, systems, and obstacles underlying the climate change challenge and discover a portfolio of possible solutions. Explore our easy-to-understand, science-backed lessons featuring global experts in climate research, policy, technology, and beyond, with actionable advice and practical skills you can learn to start taking action right away without being a scientist! When you're ready to learn more skills, join for FREE at Plato.University/courses/climate-change to get exclusive access to lesson content, worksheets, coaching, and a learning community. How to Solve Climate Change is a skill course brought to you by Plato University.
    Brandon Stover | Plato University
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Episodes
  • Final: How to Create a Solution to Climate Change
    Mar 3 2024

    Today you will learn how to create a solution to climate change and develop a plan to implement it.

    Timestamps:

    • (00:00) - Intro
    • (00:23) - Questions to assess solutions
    • (01:35) - How to create a solution and plan
    • (09:07) - Why take on this challenge

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    How to Solve Climate Change is a course presented by Plato University. In this course you will hear from leading scientists to non profit leaders from around the world sharing their expertise on climate change and the exact skills you will need to solve this challenge.

    Enroll in the course for FREE to get exclusive access to:

    • A community of passionate learners like you
    • Videos with every lesson
    • Advanced resources
    • Additional skills
    • And much more

    Enroll at plato.university/courses/climate-change

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    12 mins
  • Climate Change Solution: Geoengineering ft. Daniele Visioni
    Mar 2 2024

    Today you will learn from expert guest Daniele Visioni about geoengineering, why it may or may not help solve climate change, how it works and what needs to still be done for it to be an effective solution to climate change.

    Timestamps:

    • (00:00) - Intro
    • (00:52) - What is geoengineering?
    • (01:36) - Why would geoengineering help to solve climate change?
    • (03:01) - Why would geoengineering not help to solve climate change?
    • (03:59) - Who benefits and who is harmed by this solution?
    • (05:29) - How does geoengineering work?
    • (08:23) - What innovation or policy is needed for this to be an effective solution?
    • (11:37) - Recommended resources
    • (13:29) - Top skills to learn for solving climate change
    • (15:27) - Final Recommendations
    • (16:19) - Activity

    Daniele Visioni obtained his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics from the University of L’Aquila, in Italy, in 2018. He moved to Cornell in the same year, where he started as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. In 2022, he continued on as a Research Associate in the same department, and also became a Research Scientist I at the National Center for Atmospheric Science (NCAR). He joined EAS in the fall of 2023 as Assistant Professor, and retains a courtesy appointment as Affiliate Scientist at NCAR in the Atmospheric Chemistry, Observation and Modeling (ACOM) lab. He’s the co-chair of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP), and has been a coauthor of the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2022.


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    How to Solve Climate Change is a course presented by Plato University. In this course you will hear from leading scientists to non profit leaders from around the world sharing their expertise on climate change and the exact skills you will need to solve this challenge.

    Enroll in the course for FREE to get exclusive access to:

    • A community of passionate learners like you
    • Videos with every lesson
    • Advanced resources
    • Additional skills
    • And much more

    Enroll at plato.university/courses/climate-change

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    17 mins
  • Climate Change Solution: Carbon Labels ft. Michael Vandenbergh
    Mar 1 2024

    Today you will learn from expert guest Michael P. Vandenbergh about carbon labeling, why it may or may not help solve climate change, how it works and what needs to still be done for it to be an effective solution to climate change.

    Timestamps:

    • (00:00) - Intro
    • (01:19) - What are carbon labels?
    • (02:10) - Why would carbon labels help to solve climate change?
    • (07:15) - Why would carbon labels not help to solve climate change?
    • (11:33) - Who benefits and who is harmed by this solution?
    • (13:14) - How do carbon labels work?
    • (12:30) - What innovation or policy is needed for this to be an effective solution?
    • (16:51) - Recommended resources
    • (18:13) - Top skills to learn for solving climate change
    • (21:43) - Final Recommendations
    • (22:58) - Activity

    Michael Vandenbergh is an award-winning teacher and scholar whose research focuses on working with interdisciplinary teams to explore environmental governance, environmental behavior and climate change. His research has developed the concept of private environmental governance and explored how private governance initiatives can address polarization and other barriers to climate change mitigation. His interdisciplinary work with Vanderbilt’s Climate Change Research Network focuses on the reduction of carbon emissions from the household sector, and he is one of the top 25 law professors in the US based on peer-reviewed literature citations. His book with physicist Jonathan Gilligan, Beyond Politics: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, 2017) was favorably reviewed in Science,Nature Climate Change and Legal Planet; won the 2018 Chancellor’s Award for Research; and was named by the Environmental Forum as one of the most important environmental policy books of the last 50 years. His article “Beyond Gridlock,” also co-authored with Gilligan, won the 2015 Morrison Prize for North America’s best sustainability article. His other writings have appeared in PNAS, Nature Climate Change and the Columbia,Cornell, Michigan and NYU Law Reviews. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty, Professor Vandenbergh was a partner at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C. He served as chief of staff of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1993 to 1995. He began his career as a law clerk for Judge Edward R. Becker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. A recipient of teaching awards at Vanderbilt and at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Vandenbergh teaches courses in environmental law, climate change justice and property. He has been a visiting professor at the Wharton School’s Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics and at the University of Chicago and Harvard Law Schools. He is a fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers and a member of the Board on Environmental Change and Society of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.


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    How to Solve Climate Change is a course presented by Plato University. In this course you will hear from leading scientists to non profit leaders from around the world sharing their expertise on climate change and the exact skills you will need to solve this challenge.

    Enroll in the course for FREE to get exclusive access to:

    • A community of passionate learners like you
    • Videos with every lesson
    • Advanced resources
    • Additional skills
    • And much more

    Enroll at plato.university/courses/climate-change

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    24 mins

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